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Departure of the California First Regiment U.S.V. on the steamship "City of Peking" for the Philippine Islands

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Title: Departure of the California First Regiment U.S.V. on the steamship "City of Peking" for the Philippine Islands
Creator: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1898
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Port-side view of four-masted iron ship "City of Peking" with two smokestacks in center; US flags fly from masts; Decks crowded with soldiers of First Regiment California US Volunteer infantry en route to campaign in the Philippine Islands.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, below title): May 25, 1898/the first US troops that left their country to do battle on a foreign soil; (LR): Copyrighted by Britton & Rey, 1898. View based on photographic print.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: photomechanical 54.4 x 65.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2t1nb4ds
BANC PIC 1963.002:0341--D
Subject: Military personnel
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